When you ain't got no money, you gotta get an attitude.

The reason people use a crucifix against vampires is because vampires are allergic to bullshit.

I ain't no movie star, man. I'm a booty star.

I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think.

A lie is profanity. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth.

Two things people throughout history have had in common are hatred and humour. I am proud that I have been able to use humour to lessen people's hatred.

I'm not addicted to cocaine. I just like the way it smells.

Booty is just a ghetto expression, and I'm just a booty star.

All humor is rooted in pain.

I had some great things and I had some bad things. The best and the worst . . . In other words, I had a life.

If I thought about it, I could be bitter, but I don't feel like being bitter. Being bitter makes you immobile, and there's too much that I still want to do.

Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz.

When it comes to details, more is not necessarily better.

God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

Why must all of the operations in life be performed without an anesthetic?

I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won.

Wise men never grow up; indeed, they grow younger, for they lose the appalling worldly wisdom of youth.

There is only one type of story in the world-your story.

There may be one fault in a man that conceals a thousand qualities, or one excellence that conceals a thousand faults. The little indicates much.

A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest.

Love is more of a respect for a mystery than a desire to know.